Most people probably assumed Elizabeth Warren was more than 1% Native American
I think Americans believe it is common to have a Native American ancestor and wouldn't doubt that someone like Elizabeth Warren could have been abusing the system based on a grandmother or uncle or other close relative. I think most people see 25% as abuse. Everybody thinks about doing it, rationalizing it in their head. When I was a child, I tried to learn one word from each language so I could say I speak every language.
I don't think she can run for president anymore because this comes across as way too smug and entitled. We didn't like it when a rich white women insisted she deserved Harvard benefits. Now we find out she is even less Native American than we thought and instead of gracefully backing away she doubles down and insists she deserves even more privlidge, a million dollars from Trump? For being 1%?
The worst part about it is that the media is so eager to go along with it. I don't know the details of the test where some people are saying it is phony, but I think it being 1% is even worse because it confirms it. The journalists went to the White House press conference to ask Trump to pay up. It looks crazy. Trump asked what the percentage was and the journalists all claimed not to know! How do they not know the one and only result they are reporting on? They are trying to tell us a blonde haired blue eyed white woman is confirmed full blooded Native American as if we will not ask the percentage and see for ourselves that it is a lie. Image what the media would allow Elizabeth Warren to get away with as president. She could do anything. That's really scary to everyone who has any doubt about the establishment. But of course the rest will still deny the media is liberal.